MÖTLEY CRÜE unveiled today the details of its 2013 Canadian tour, which marks the most expansive run of the country in the band’s history. The trek will commence this spring with a total of 18 show dates, kicking off on April 20 in the West Coast, and running through to May 14 when the band completes the tour in the nation’s capital; this will be the only time the band will perform in Canada through 2013. MÖTLEY CRÜE will be joined by special guests BIG WRECK; the full tour has been listed below.

Apr. 20 – Penticton, BC – South Okanagon Events Centre
Apr. 22 – Victoria, BC – Save On Foods Memorial Centre
Apr. 23 – Abbotsford, BC – Entertainment & Sports Centre
Apr. 25 – Prince George, BC – CN Centre
Apr. 26 – Dawson Creek, BC – EnCana Events Centre
Apr. 28 – Edmonton, AB – Rexall Place
Apr. 29 – Calgary, AB – Scotiabank Saddeldome
Apr. 30 – Lethbridge, AB – ENMAX Centre
May 02 – Saskatoon, SK – Credit Union Centre
May 03 – Moose Jaw, SK – Mosaic Place
May 04 – Estevan, SK – Spectra Place
May 06 – Brandon, MB – Keystone Centre
May 07 – Winnipeg, MB – MTS Centre
May 09 – Subdury, ON – Sudbury Area
May 10 – Hamilton, ON – Copps Coliseum
May 11 – Oshawa, ON – General Motors Centre
May 13 – Montréal, QC – Centre Bell
May 14 – Ottawa, ON – Scotiabank Place

MÖTLEY CRÜE last year released a brand new song called “Sex” to coincide with the launch of the band’s North American co-headlining tour with KISS.

Written when the group was together during their residency in Las Vegas in February 2012, “Sex” was the first studio track from the CRÜE since their June 2008 release of “Saints Of Los Angeles”.

“We’ve been writing,” bassist Nikki Sixx told Loudwire. “We started the record with the song ‘Sex’ and I have a ton of riffs. I know Mick [Mars, guitar] has told me he has a ton of riffs and it’s just a matter of now collecting riffs. For a while, it was only writing segments of music and getting together and collaborating but now I’m starting to finish music more like I used to more — like I used to in the old days — and finish it top to bottom. So I look forward to getting in the room with my band and going, ‘Here’s ten of my ideas, what have you got?’ and then we kind of let that process happen.”

Asked about MÖTLEY CRÜE‘s long-term future, Sixx said: “We haven’t been shy that MÖTLEY CRÜE has been talking about somewhere in the near future doing a farewell tour. We talked about it on ‘Piers Morgan’and different interviews. It’s not that we hate each other or we don’t work together well. I think it’s just at some point we want to leave it with some sort of a legacy that’s leaving it in a good way. I just see some bands that keep fucking beating a dead horse and I’m like, ‘Get off the horse, dude, it’s dead.’ And MÖTLEY CRÜE is really at one of our highest points we’ve been and I would like to see us even climb higher by seeing us finish our movie, an album and then maybe announcing a farewell tour and going out at the top. It would be a really nice look.”

Source: www.blabbermouth.net